1008 GMT May 24, 2022
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By Ali Amiri*
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In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, one nurse in Levant, Maine, the US, began sewing personal protective equipment (PPE) for her healthcare colleagues. With the help of her husband, the idea took off.
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Luca Esposito, 12, had so much time during the pandemic to perfect his cake making/decorating skills that the seventh-grader now has started a business and is saving for college.
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Kazakhstan and Iran enjoy great potentials to expand bilateral trade, said Kazakhstan’s Vice Minister of Trade and Integration Kairat Torebayev on Monday.
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A major poll conducted in Iran shows that almost 20 percent of people in the country are using social media services for business purposes.
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Britain's private sector business activity slowed sharply in August due to ongoing staff and supply shortages, a survey showed.
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Eurozone business activity roared in July, expanding at its fastest pace in 15 years, as the lifting of more coronavirus restrictions and an accelerated vaccine drive injected life into the bloc’s dominant service industry, a survey showed.
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Iran will allocate a fixed budget for dispensing loans to home businesses as the country seeks to provide more support for self-employed people and to encourage more economic activity among women in the country.
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China's Foreign Ministry branch in Hong Kong said new US sanctions on Chinese officials and its updated business advisory on the city are "extremely rude" and "extremely unreasonable" bullying acts with "despicable intention".
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International Desk
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Global investors' enthusiasm for the Chinese market seems unstoppable despite the COVID-19 pandemic, as the latest data showed that China successfully navigated the economic fallout in the turbulent year and became the top investment destination worldwide.
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German companies’ optimism in an economic recovery is being tested as extended lockdowns at home and abroad curb activity.
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Asian firms turned most optimistic in the fourth quarter this year, a Thomson Reuters/INSEAD survey showed, as business activity picked up in the region and COVID-19 vaccines started rolling out in Western countries ahead of their Asian launch.
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Eurozone business growth ground to a halt this month as the service industry slammed into reverse, knocked by a resurgence in coronavirus cases that pushed governments to reintroduce restrictions and citizens to stay at home, a survey showed.
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By Marcy Gordon
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